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Have You Ever Experienced A Panic Attack?

#41
Funk$tar said:
Thank you so much and oh no!!!
I hope he is okay, I'll make sure to keep him in my prayers. I always am worried about addiction and the other downsides that come with taking medication, but thankfully the medication I take makes it impossible for anyone to abuse it. My doctor a few months ago told me to try out Ritalin and see how much better it is than the medicine I always took because it started to wear off. So I took it and I was a little hesitant at first because this drug can easily be abused, it was the worst thing I have ever done. I started taking more and more because it would wear off like after an hour, but in all reality your only expose to take 1 with every meal (3 daily), but I was probably taking 8 a day! That was such a bad time in my life, but I ended up stopping after my mom found out. It wasn't too hard to stop taking them because they made me feel like I was worthless, I felt like I let my parents down, but they told me they weren't, they just didn't understand why I would've done that. To be honest, I took them because I was at a very vunerable period in my life where i was just looking for anything to relieve the pain. I've learned now that I need to think of others before I think of myself, plus I'm just thankful I'm not an addict. I mean to some people that is "addictive" behavior, but if my mom would've told me that it's killing her seeing me take those pills I would've honestly stopped right there, but nobody knew so it was like, "well I'm not hurting anybody," but I actually didn't think about the fact that I was hurting myself.
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you are proably more bored than depressed! you are proably a very young version of a person like me. i'm sure my parents were wishing there was a drug to calm me down, but threatening to send me to military school was enough, thank God!
my friend was on Ritalin i believe. he was the most brilliant person i knew. we were two kids that were way ahead of the bunch. we got excellent grades when we did attend classes, but normally we hung-out in my fathers shop building furniture or assembling amplifer kits. we typically conversed with adults because kids were just too ignorant for us.
long story short,.. his parents couldn't handle his eccentricities and mine could!
perhaps you are putting too much emphasis on too many things at once. simplify,.. sell stuff you don't need,.. spend the money on airfare to Maui! you'd be shocked what a week on a tropical island can do for your psyche!
 
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#42
pacojas said:
wean off of the meds!!!! life is what shapes an individual. the hard knocks make us stronger. meds are a buffer to reality. if a situation causes "panic", take a hike, jog across campus, lift weights, imo/e!
don't rely on man made crap drugs when nature provides the same desired effects with simple herbs! research holistic therapy and be amazed how healthy you can be. my Granny had ancient herbal wisdom. the grand children who followed her teaching are healthy beyond measure and spiritually strong. some of us are so clear of mind,.. we see the future! no BS! we see the F'n future!!! we are not prisoners of Big Pharma. find a way, D
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Your attitude, though your intention to be helpful, does not really show any understanding of mental illness, depression and injury like PTSD.
Compassion is key to helping.
Now the Armed forces recognises this finally....and we do not want the General Patton form of therapy.
More people died of suicide following world war 2 than were killed in combat..
PTSD
 
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Gaolee said:
You love music, and playing can be a meditation of its own. So, there's two really good things right there.
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You are right, that is!
It's just something as small as learning music theory or messing up a part of a song while doing a cover for youtube can trigger my stress really easily. Just visited my other doctor today and she said that it would be good idea for me to go out and find a class for kids like me. She also said that I should defintely get a counselor, which I totally agree with. I'm really hesitant towards going to a class where other kids suffer from social anxiety because I just don't have the ability to be patient and share my experience with other people I don't know in person. To be honest, I just would rather play my bass all day (i've actually been doing it since the day I started my summer back in April) than talk or "hang out". I know in the future when I start playing that I will go out of my shell a lot more because in order for me to make it in the biz, I gotta meet and play with others which is actually not that scary when I think about. uy
 
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murphy said:
Your attitude, though your intention to be helpful, does not really show any understanding of mental illness, depression and injury like PTSD.
Compassion is key to helping.
Now the Armed forces recognises this finally....and we do not want the General Patton form of therapy.
More people died of suicide following world war 2 than were killed in combat..
PTSD
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i hear ya, Murphy! :)
i am definitely a hardass. i guess i should work on compassion, but i just can't get into some of these modern therapies. i think lil Miss Funk$tar should start a band somehow. our bodies were not designed to ingest all of these chems regardless, imo.
ironically, after i posted yesterday i had an anxiety attack when a friend of mine was allegedly robbed yesterday. there was nothing i could do, so i took my neighbors kids for a walk, hung-out in the garden, and later played my bass through another plateau.
by the time i was done,.. it was time to sleep. sure, there's proably a pill or an "app" on my phone that alleviate's stress, but i woke-up feeling clear of mind and very light on my feet.
i think i'll lift weights today! ;)
 
#47
Don't let messing up get to you. There's got to be a way to turn it into a positive. The joke I have playing in front of people is to count mistakes. The first to 100 wins! We don't really count mistakes, of course, but when you turn it into a joke, it takes the teeth away. Also, don't treat learning music theory like it is something it isn't. It's all just a different way of describing patterns you already know very well. Take it slowly and make it into a meditation as well.
 
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Gaolee said:
Don't let messing up get to you. There's got to be a way to turn it into a positive. The joke I have playing in front of people is to count mistakes. The first to 100 wins! We don't really count mistakes, of course, but when you turn it into a joke, it takes the teeth away. Also, don't treat learning music theory like it is something it isn't. It's all just a different way of describing patterns you already know very well. Take it slowly and make it into a meditation as well.
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Thank you so much for the advice, I'll be sure to keep all that in mind!
 
#49
pacojas said:
wean off of the meds!!!! life is what shapes an individual. the hard knocks make us stronger. meds are a buffer to reality. if a situation causes "panic", take a hike, jog across campus, lift weights, imo/e!
don't rely on man made crap drugs when nature provides the same desired effects with simple herbs! research holistic therapy and be amazed how healthy you can be. my Granny had ancient herbal wisdom. the grand children who followed her teaching are healthy beyond measure and spiritually strong. some of us are so clear of mind,.. we see the future! no BS! we see the F'n future!!! we are not prisoners of Big Pharma. find a way, D
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FWIW, I deal with people with psychological disorders on a daily basis. I have had personal experiences with these clients who have taken advice like the above and voluntarily went against thier physician's advice to continue medication. I am usually also the
person first called to cut these individuals down from the rope/cord they were hanging from with blue faces and stretched-out necks. Cleaning a mentally ill person's brains from their bedroom walls is not a fun experience when you know their history and know they weren't following a doctors advice. Sorry to be so graphic but this is a very serious topic and I can't stress how important it is to follow a DOCTOR'S advice when it comes to your health. We are ALL here to help our bass brothers and I appreciate your compassion in trying to help the op, but please think things through before giving medical advice.
 
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SnL said:
FWIW, I deal with people with psychological disorders on a daily basis. I have had personal experiences with these clients who have taken advice like the above and voluntarily went against thier physician's advice to continue medication. I am usually also the
person first called to cut these individuals down from the rope/cord they were hanging from with blue faces and stretched-out necks. Cleaning a mentally ill person's brains from their bedroom walls is not a fun experience when you know their history and know they weren't following a doctors advice. Sorry to be so graphic but this is a very serious topic and I can't stress how important it is to follow a DOCTOR'S advice when it comes to your health. We are ALL here to help our bass brothers and I appreciate your compassion in trying to help the op, but please think things through before giving medical advice.
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point taken!
 
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SnL said:
FWIW, I deal with people with psychological disorders on a daily basis. I have had personal experiences with these clients who have taken advice like the above and voluntarily went against thier physician's advice to continue medication. I am usually also the
person first called to cut these individuals down from the rope/cord they were hanging from with blue faces and stretched-out necks. Cleaning a mentally ill person's brains from their bedroom walls is not a fun experience when you know their history and know they weren't following a doctors advice. Sorry to be so graphic but this is a very serious topic and I can't stress how important it is to follow a DOCTOR'S advice when it comes to your health. We are ALL here to help our bass brothers and I appreciate your compassion in trying to help the op, but please think things through before giving medical advice.
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Oh no I agree, but I don't think anyone will have to worry about me harming myself in anyway because I just physically can't! I literally am afraid to kill a fly let alone hurt myself or anyone for that matter in any way, so the chances of me doing something so horrific are 1/100. Not trying to jinx myself at all because that's the last thing I want, but I've never been that type of person. I've always looked at life as a complete blessing, so for me to take that away is beyond words. I definitely do believe I should follow my doctors orders, she recently said if my medicine isn't working to just boost it up a little to help, but don't worry guys, Ole Diege is okay.
 
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I think Paco' saw what I see in that, despite the chemical anxiety/depression stuff you were blessed with, you were also blessed with the desire to manage to work hard to try to maintain a good attitude toward life. My response to
pacojas said:
wean off of the meds!!!!
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wouldn't have come out like that if we were concerned about your safety. And I realize that now, Paco (sorry if I came off brash, I ain't like that:).) It was posted as a general word of caution.
Keep us posted! We all deal with negative personal crap everyday but we're all here for ya.
It takes guts to talk about this stuff but when you do, you are helping tons of people who don't (just because there are only a few of us in this discussion, doesn't mean many aren't reading it and feeling like they're not alone.
Thanks. Keep that funk alive!
 
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#54
bolophonic said:
I was present for the explosion at the Pentagon in 2001 and suffered from panic attacks for a long time afterwards. Truly horrifying way to live. I hope they subside for you.
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Horrific, dude. Glad you're still around. That 9/11 doc was on yesterday and I still can't watch it. Can't imagine being a witness...:crying::rage:
Did your attacks cease completely on thier own?
 
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Yes, very recently. I was in a really bad car accident, and after all the dust cleared and insurance was taken care of I had an anxiety attack. it's hard to keep under control. I too struggle with depression and anxiety, it all was worsened by the accident. On another instance I have been trying to start a band for a little while now, and In general musicians have a tough time understanding me, or the complex ideas I have musically, and that triggered to date the worst nervous breakdown I've experienced. I don't know why, I understand now that some musicians just don't click, and I need to find the right guys who are into that kind of experimental stuff,but i figured my ideas were lost on modern musicians and I'd never get off the ground because of it, you probably know how it is to overthink things on a ridicules level. It happens, and it's dangerous, severe anxiety can elevate blood pressure abnormally, cause unsafe increases to heart rate, and can even cause aneurism or stroke. This is all worst case , but it's unhealthy to be over stressed. good luck d. And keep calm, it's hard to do a lot of times, and depression can make it a lot harder to manage, but it's unhealthy to get worked up to that level. It comes in waves, one day your fine, the next day the rain is depressing you and you feel like you've made a bunch of bad choices or whatever is a trigger for you. I'm sorry for the book, but this is a very personal subject for me.
 
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Another thing, I don't know if your in high school but when I was , I was really afraid of depression and it made me make a lot of bad choices. Like underage drinking, coming to school high, and getting into fist fights, do not ever be like that. That's the way people i went to school with remember me, and it's really hard to cope with after all I've done to become a better person. I unlike you it would seem, have had issues with anger at my peers, don't ever be like that. I had to take a fifth year of high school because i didn't give a poopie about it at the time, don't be like that. It's not worth it, I don't think you would, but it was a poor Coping method for me. And it ended up create more anger and depression when things like getting the "worst case of senior-itis" superlative my fifth year happened, it was intended as a joke, it hurt me a lot and because of that I got frustrated and yelled at my band director who is a great person and didn't deserve to be the target of my anger. Sorry to ramble on and on, as I said this thread is for me the most personal that I've ever participated in, and you may learn from my poor example, even if it's just what you shouldn't do, it's more than worth it to me to help out someone going through semi similar struggle as I did. Best of luck funk star, I hope you can find a way to cope with it that's better than what I chose.
 
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I'm glad you were able to recover from your panic attack, Funk$tar. I have never personally experienced one myself, but a close friend of mine called my girlfriend and I at 2 am because her abusive boyfriend was throwing things around the house. We kept her on the phone as she was panicking, and let me tell you -- the horrific sounds of her shrieking and crying were unparalleled to anything I have ever heard. She is now happily married to a better man.
 
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